Definition
[n] (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively; "old people"; "there were at least 200 people in the audience"
[n] members of a family line; "his people have been farmers for generations"; "are your people still alive?"
[n] the body of citizens of a state or country; "the Spanish people"
[n] the common people generally; "separate the warriors from the mass"; "power to the people"
[v] fill with people or supply with inhabitants; "people a room"; "The government wanted to populate the remote area of the country"
[v] make one's home or live in; "There are only 250,000 people in Iceland"; "I live in a 200-year old house"; "These people inhabited all the islands that are now deserted"; "The plains are sparsely populated"
Synonyms
citizenry, domicile, domiciliate, dwell, hoi polloi, inhabit, live, mass, masses, multitude, populate, populate, reside, shack
See Also...
a people, age bracket, age group, ancients, audience, baffled, be, bivouac, blind, blood, blood group, blood type, board, brave, business, business people, camp, camp out, cautious, chosen people, citizen, class, clientele, coevals, cohabit, cohort, common people, community, contemporaries, country, damned, dead, deaf, defeated, disabled, discomfited, doomed, electorate, encamp, enemy, enlightened, family, family line, fill, fill up, folk, followers, following, free, free people, generation, governed, group, grouping, homebound, homeless, human, human beings, human race, humanity, humankind, humans, individual, initiate, kinfolk, kinsfolk, laity, land, live in, live out, living, lodge, lodge in, lost, maimed, make full, man, mankind, mentally retarded, migration, mortal, nation, neighbor, neighbour, occupy, overpopulate, patronage, person, phratry, populace, population, public, rank and file, retreated, room, rusticate, sept, shack up, sick, sleep in, sleep out, smart money, social class, socio-economic class, somebody, someone, soul, temporalty, tent, timid, unconfessed, uninitiate, womankind, world, wounded
Related Terms
agnate, ancestors, ancestry, anchor, animal kingdom, assembly, billet at, bivouac, blood, blood relation, blood relative, bodies, body politic, bourgeoisie, breed, brethren, brood, burrow, camp, children, churchgoers, citizenry, clan, clansman, class, cog
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